Death Along the Spirit Road

238 Pages·2011·0.91 MB·English

by  Wendelboe C M

Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
HELP FROM A HIGHER POWER

He tried reaching the Glock. Three steps. Closer. Reached again. Steps stopped
outside his shattered window. He lay on his arm, trapped, unable to get to the
weapon. He willed his labored breathing to stop. He told the rising and falling of
his chest to be still. He lay quiet, listening, praying to God he could pull it off.
His hand fell automatically onto his medicine bundle.
Someone shined a flashlight into Manny’s car. Through his closed eyelids,
Manny saw all this as if he were sitting in a theater watching some dark,
foreboding movie. Light played across his lids. He wanted to open them, wanted
to look at his attacker, but he didn’t. The driver squatted inches from him, close
enough that Manny felt warm puffs of breath on his neck through the window.
He struggled to remain conscious. His cop side took over, and he listened for
anything that would later identify the attacker. If he lived through this . . .

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wendelboe, C. M.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-47871-4
1. Dakota Indians—Fiction. 2. Indian reservations—South Dakota—Fiction. 3. Real estate developers—
Crimes against—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3623.E53D43 2011
813'.6—dc22
2010038253

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To Milt Wendelboe,
who was a voracious reader until the day he died.

And my Lakota friends,
who kept me on my own Road.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank my agent, Bill Contardi, and my editor, Tom Colgan, for
having faith to take a chance on a rookie, and Eric Boss and Mike McGroder, for
greasing the wheels and to Richard Tuschman, whose beauty with the brush
portrayed so precisely the mood and theme of the novel. I thank my mentors
Judy and Craig Johnson and my wife, Heather Wendelboe: Without their help,
you wouldn’t be reading this.